Why ObamaCare Passage Marks A Day That Shall Live In Infamy

The pundits have rightly compared the gigantic ObamaCare bill with the Roosevelt administration – if nothing else than because we haven’t seen any government program so gigantic since then.

In a way that is very fitting. Because we can bookend December 7, 1941 and March 21, 2010 with the same prediction: a day that shall live in infamy.

December 7th was a disaster because FDR utterly failed to see a clear and present danger building on opposite sides of both oceans. We failed to take precautions. We failed to arm ourselves. We even failed to protect ourselves. What made it so criminal was that we had years of ample warning, but simply chose to ignore it.

March 21 was hardly a surprise, either. Just as with December 7, a lot of Americans saw it coming, but lacked the power to do anything but point and shout about the coming disaster. The major difference is that on December 7, 1941, our government failed to protect our way of life, whereas on March 21, 2010, our government actively attacked our way of life.

And now it is here. And now that it is here, it will grow like a cancer. Slowly at first – it doesn’t fully kick in until 2014 – and then it will erupt like a big poisonous mushroom.

“Nonetheless, it will be the law of the land as of tonight and we’re going to be a different country. We are on our way, there is absolutely no chance we are not going to end up with national health care. This is nationalizing health care, the insurance companies are now utilities, they are contractors. the government makes all of these decisions, only a matter of time and will probably happen after the Obama administration. But he will be remembered as the father of national health care as they have in Canada or Britain and it starts tonight.”

This bill is “not going to protect consumers from these rapid premium increases

It provides “no guarantees of any control over premiums”

It is “forcing people to buy private insurance”

It’s going to result in “five consecutive years of double-digit premium increases”

“I just don`t see that this bill is the solution”

“The insurance companies are the problem and we`re giving them a version of a bailout”

“This bill doesn`t change the fact that the insurance companies are going to keep socking it to the consumer”

It results in a “giveaway to the insurance industry”

“You`re building on sand. There`s no structure here”

If we pass this bill, “all we`re going to have is more poverty in this country”

If we pass this bill, “people aren`t going to get the care that they need”

This remaking of private insurance companies as utilities, as contractors for the government, is fascism, pure and simple. The government didn’t nationalize them, as it would do under communism, but it created a massive new set of regulations, and bureaucracies, and mandates, and taxes that quintessentially takes them over as agents of the state. And that is what fascism is all about:

Where socialism [i.e., communism] sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”–that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities.

And that is exactly what is happening. Liberals may not like my term, but it couldn’t be more applicable here. Obama demonized the insurance companies, and he will now regulate and control and dominate them “in the national interest.”

“I think that if you take a step back from this the real story here is is the deficit and that story. Everybody’s familiar with the debt clock; we’ve all seen how fast it moves. This is going to put it on double time or triple time because when you go back and you look at the history of entitlements in the country, that’s the pattern. There are promises that this is going to cut deficits or debt, and it never does. You look back at at what FDR said when he signed Social Security into law in July 1935. He said it would act as a protection for future administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy. He also said this is a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide the United States and economic structure of vastly greater soundness. Social Security today? $43 Trillion dollar unfunded liability – that’s 400 thousand dollars per household in the United States today. And you go back to 1965. LBJ did the same thing. You saw Nancy Pelosi carrying the gavel – it’s the same argument. He said it would be $1.50 a month for the average worker. $1.50 a month. Three dollars per month after you’re 65. Today, Medicare has a $57 trillion dollar unfunded liability. $500,000 dollars per American household. This will bankrupt the country.”

It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions. It will act as a protection to future Administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy. The law will flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation. It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

Does that sound like something that lessened the force of possible future ANYTHING? A protection to future administrations against the necessity of going deeply in debt??? Something that provides the United States with an economic structure of vastly greater soundness??? We’re doomed.

Maybe you don’t care that this giant boondoggle is going to crash and burn your country, and that your children or grandchildren will literally die as a result of your greed and selfishness. But I do.

They promised us a bogus Utopia, and that Utopia is about to collapse into the fiery pit of hell.

During your working years, the people of America–you–will contribute through the social security program a small amount each payday for hospital insurance protection. For example, the average worker in 1966 will contribute about $1.50 per month. The employer will contribute a similar amount. And this will provide the funds to pay up to 90 days of hospital care for each illness, plus diagnostic care, and up to 100 home health visits after you are 65. And beginning in 1967, you will also be covered for up to 100 days of care in a skilled nursing home after a period of hospital care.

And under a separate plan, when you are 65–that the Congress originated itself, in its own good judgment–you may be covered for medical and surgical fees whether you are in or out of the hospital. You will pay $3 per month after you are 65 and your Government will contribute an equal amount.

Let me tell you how Medicare affects me: It affects me with a $57 trillion unfunded liability. It affects me with a bill of $500,000 for every single household in America. It affects me with an individual bill (that every single man, woman, and child in this country owes) of $230,000.

And that’s $230,ooo on top of the $184,000 I owe for Medicare. I owe $414,000. And my household owns $900,000. And great googly moogly, we don’t got it. We’re on a speeding train that is going to keep hurtling along until it flies off a cliff and crashes.

And that “47 million” clearly includes 17 million illegal immigrants. The Democrats’ incredibly cynical plan is to take health resources from you and from your children and grandchildren and give those resources to illegal immigrants so they can capture the Hispanic vote.

The metaphor is a dozen people rushing into your house to eat your food and consume your resources while your own kids go hungry. No one would do this. But your government is doing it under Democrat Party tyranny.

The real cost of this bill is over $6 TRILLION. The Democrats filled their legislation with gimmicks, such as assuming they would cut doctors’ Medicare reimbursements by 21% when they know they won’t, then putting that “Doctor fix” in another bill. That will add $208 billion to the real cost of their plan. Then they falsely start the bill’s ten-year score in 2010, when the benefits don’t start getting paid out until 2014. That accounting deceit masks the fact that the REAL cost of the bill is $2.3 trillion.

In other words, your ObamaCare – which really isn’t even deficit neutral at all – was sold as “deficit neutral” because it doesn’t count the trillions and trillions of dollars that American citizens will be compelled by their government to pay for health insurance.

ObamaCare amounted to the slitting of the national wrists. And we’re going to start bleeding out until we either abandon it or die.

The Republicans have a few more tactics to fight this bill, but they amount to starting backfires to try to temporarily contain a massive hungry forest fire. It won’t be enough, and it probably won’t ultimately succeed.

4 Responses to “Why ObamaCare Passage Marks A Day That Shall Live In Infamy”

I called my mom (whose doing well, btw, HL), and she said she quit watching the vote because it was too upsetting to her. A couple of her relatives that she talked to said they did the same thing (I remember one of them saying she switched it off and turned on the Cosby show instead.

I turned it off after Bart Stupak demonstrated that there really isn’t even a single Democrat who actually has principles.

But we can’t just turn on another channel and try to “escape” this. We’ve got to get more determined than ever. We’ve got to be willing to fight.

You’re right Michael. We have got to fight like never before. I am glad to hear your mom is doing well. I think and of her and continue to pray.

I felt physically sickened as I watched the voting, had to turn it off as well.

I can’t find language to express how horrible Bart Sutpak is. I don’t know how these people sleep at night. Their ability to LIE and then have some idiotic, irrational statement makes me feel crazy angry. These people are evil…….flat out evil.

WE must galvanize and fight as we have never fought before.
Help us, Lord Jesus!